Two artists paint the land at Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery

Thursday

Nov 29, 2012 at 3:15 AM

PORTSMOUTH — Two artists walk the woods on and off together for nearly 25 years. The Levy Gallery brings together those two painters in exhibit for the month of December with an artists' reception, Dec. 7, 5-7 p.m. with the show running through Dec. 28.

These two are obsessed with nature's own journey, though each would use different words, and not with a gentle, classically ordered landscape. In fact, neither allows the viewer an easy trip into their compositions.

Massachusetts artist David Fullam and Maine painter Lane Williamson have traveled distances to paint in each others' studios, they've hiked swamps, woods, and islands together gathering source material; out there they seek beginnings that are endings and endings that are new starts: new growth pushing up from the old; they watch as earthly detritis shifts with the sky: shadow patterns, light refractions; they collect images of out in the open secrets of the visible world. The talk is of mark making and paint, of structuring a space, and placing objects in that space. The narratives in the work are not dissimilar.

“Not Far From the Source” celebrates nature's own journey as source and the very individual works of these two painters.

Fullam just completed a 30 year retrospective exhibit at the NH Art Institute where he taught from 1979-2000. David is represented by the Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA. His work is included in the DeCordova Museum permanent collection and in corporate and private collections in the United States and Asia.

Williamson paints and teaches from her studio in Kittery Point, Maine. She has exhibited throughout New England. Her work is held in private and corporate collections. For more information visit her website www.lanebwilliamson.com.